Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Whirligig 268

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com


THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016" by Eduardo C. Corral: laugh, die, met, ritual, body, poem, taught, elders, gift, ground, tongue, turning

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Whirligig 267

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com


THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Naming the Trees" by Bruce Guernsey: roots, earth, war, maple, oak, poplar, shiny, skinny, mute, shade, sounding, weeping

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Whirligig 266

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com


THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Potatoes" by Lucy Adkins: potatoes, dashed, truck, bounty, grace, flyaway, three, scatter, shoulder, lanes, perhaps, grateful

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Whirligig 265

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com


THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "At the Dentist's" by Deirdre O'Connor: fill, tooth, help, unharmed, needlepoint, stacked, arms, smiles, afraid, mix, faces, mittens